Luxet is a Ganymedean psychological healthcare professional and the owner of the Aloe Branch Mental Health and Wellness Clinic, a small therapy and behavioral clinic based on Titan. Luxet has blossomed into a remarkable flower from the seed of a long and interesting life, and that unique experience colors the way they help other people find firm ground beneath them in a world that can feel windswept and impossible to keep oneself upright. They have a tendency to be hyperverbal, expressing big ideas with as much context and supplemental information as they feel is helpful to fully convey the breadth of meaning in what they want to say, but they also know when to let someone speak and lend them the full breadth of their three leaves. They have a tendency to throw themselves entirely into their work, making little time for a social life outside of their practice of care; this combination of qualities can give off the impression that Luxet has a bottomless reserve of energy which they are constantly directing towards anyone around them in need. While they maintain an independent practice on Titan, Luxet and the Aloe Branch Wellness Clinic are partners with the Beltway Quarantine Collective, routinely joining deployments to outbreak sites in order to provide mental health services to communities affected by the callous whims of nature and chance.
Like all Ganymedeans, Luxet's story began with a single seed. A Ganymedean never knows their antecendents and they never live to meet their descendents, which tends to mean their concept of a family is different from species whose lives overlap with their parents and their children. When a Ganymedean passes away their body dries out and crumbles, releasing the hard-shelled seeds of their lineage out into the universe, to land and take root and sprout wherever they may fall. Unique among their kind, Luxet's seed was recovered by a small orbit of sympathetic Solzari visitors to the Sol system, who gave it a place to take root and flourish, fostering a young Luxet as one of their own and raised them as part of their family in the Solzari tradition. The solitary life was not Luxet's fate, and instead they were able to see the systems beyond Sol, meet people unlike any they might find back home and find their own identity in the patchwork found-family unit of a Solzari orbit. They are fond of their adoptive parents, and have grown to embrace their way of life, but when they came of age they settled back in the Sol system and committed themselves to paying forward the love they were shown by sharing their own boundless empathy with those around them, from all walks of life. Luxet knows well the myriad ways a family unit can be sewn together, and what bonds keep them together against which strains that might otherwise pull them apart, so as a therapist they can speak to patients with complex and nonstandard family structures on their terms, without trying to fit their situation into the frame of someone else's situation. They founded the Aloe Branch Mental Health and Wellness Clinic as a way to carry the flame of care and support their orbit passed onto them, and from that seed they've grown their practice into a fully-staffed care center, employing multiple professionals from a spectrum of disciplines who share in Luxet's mission of care for all who find their way into their company.
The Aloe Branch Wellness Clinic is well-equipped and thoughtfully-planned to provide a soothing environment for Luxet's patients; lighting is low and softly fluctuates, colors are gentle with an aquatic palette and walls are painted with subtle patterns of mottled, adjacent hues that break up the sterility of a room while also providing something interesting to look at. Similarly, silence in the clinic is filled by white noise sourced from natural origins as an additional way for people to find calm and to make the Aloe Branch as gentle an environment as possible. Being a Beltway Collective partner, Luxet's practice often takes them away from their clinic to instead work in a pop-up camp in a space station or a far-off world, always on short notice. In anticipation of the unforeseeable, Luxet has put together a light-weight mobile therapy kit they can bring with them to Beltway Collective quarantine sites, ensuring the same measure of comfort is maintained in their field practice as it is in their home practice. From head to toe: Luxet wears a soft glow-ring around their leaves, maintained by a gravity suspension band around their head. Capable of being adjusted to emulate the natural lighting of any homeworld, Luxet aims to create a comforting environment in the privacy of their tent while they are working with a patient. Around their shoulders Luxet carries a silver thermal space blanket, folded over many times into a compact, Ganymedean-friendly cloak. The blanket can be unfolded to provide warmth for patients many times their own size, the soft crinkling sound it makes serving a similar purpose to the white noise of their home clinic. Suspended from an array of harnesses, Luxet carries a selection of small snacks, water, medications and vitamins- a set of safe offerings to help people mitigate some of the physical demands of their crisis while they sort out the emotional ones. Additionally, Luxet keeps an array of small trinkets in their deployment kit- some of these the Ganymedean picked out themself, others are gifts from people they've helped through prior situations, but all have some interesting quality to them in the same way the walls of their clinic are painted. Texture, weight, geometry of facets, color, opacity and refractive properties are all considerations in bringing a tactile trinket along to a Beltway Collective quarantine site, since handling something physical and real can help the mind find an anchor from those things which are immaterial but no less real.
The Beltway Quarantine Collective maintains a network of partners like Luxet whose services can support the needs of their core mission in ways that their staff's set of skills might not cover, but they find no less valuable. The main objective of the Beltway Quarantine Collective is to mitigate the harm caused when contaminants from one world find their way into another world which has no natural defense against the invasive element- to have something like this visit your world and disrupt your whole life, it can be traumatic. Why did this impossible thing happen, and why did it happen to me? There are internal, invisible pains inflicted by the harmful vectors the Collective seek to contain that deserve as much care and concern as any physical symptom. Therapists, psychologists and mental health professionals can go a long way towards helping manage the trauma of finding yourself in the middle of a deathly disease outbreak or a crop-blighting swarm of invasive pests; when our lives are upturned we don't always land neatly on our feet, and it's important to recognize the invisible tears that form in our emotional patchwork and treat them seriously. Luxet works closely with the Beltway Collective to provide care for intangible injuries as they aim to mitigate the tangible ones, extending the gentle hand of their practice to people of any walk, any world and any temperament, anywhere they're called to be. We are a patchwork quilt of interconnected lifeforms, and it's important that we mind the threads that hold our panels together when they start to fray. Luxet has staff and assistants back at home to handle appointments at the Aloe Branch Clinic when an emergency calls them to the field, to lend a leaf to those in need on some distant world. They don't really have any social obligations they need to manage in quite the same way as their professional ones, allowing them to deploy to a hotspot at the drop of a pin. It's a bit of an upside to having such a lopsided work-life balance, but they'd argue that when your orbit is so big as to include everyone in need, you're never really leaving anyone hanging, are you? There's not a whole lot of room for a counter-argument, though, because... well... away they go! Deploying to a far-flung quarantine site, their kit packed and ready. Hold their calls, they'll be back as soon as they can!